JAPAN: To Please a Guest

JAPAN
To Please a Guest
Like Connecticut schoolgirls on Commencement
Day, the geishas of Japan gather together on the Day of the Seven Herbs
at the end of Japan's New Year feasting to receive their awards for a
year well spent. Last week, as the fragile and mannered geishas of
Gion, one of Kyoto's most famed geisha districts, trooped into the
auditorium of their two-story training academy for the annual ceremony
of a new geisha year, the balconies were ringed with the faces of
teachers, music masters and...